Description
After decades of innovative scholarship that galvanized a field and shattered a world of preconceptions, the study of gender now appears to languish. It has been a long while since the publication of a provocative and influential text like Judith Butler's Gender Trouble . Kath Weston argues that the problem is one of time. For too long gender studies has been preoccupied with the visual, with ample attention given to issues of performativity and embodiment, all at the expense of time. Gender in Real Time makes a provocative and important new argument that will revolutionize the field of gender studies. Introducing temporality into the equation and examining the ways gender exists, Weston uses the tools of political economy, the history of mathematics, Darwinian evolution, and a bit of physics to propel gender studies toward the future. Startling new concepts like zero gender and the meaning of time claims are introduced. Moreover, the impact of our time-sensitive society, with its ever-increasing need for speed and accelerated development, is explored for its effect on the production of gender. With chapter titles including, Unsexed, The Ghosts of Gender Past, and The Global Economy Next Time, this book offers a pioneering addition to the field that will forever change our notion of gender.
Table of Contents
Now Boarding: The Starship Gender A Preface What The Cat Dragged In: Gender Studies Today An Elegy and Introduction Liberation When? Vision Just in Time Surviving Representation Matters Material Unsexed: A Zero Concept for Gender Studies All That Is Fleeting Compacts Sunya, Sifr, Zero The Cell of the Third De-Ciphering Vacating the Void Do Clothes Make the Woman? Performing In and Out of Industrial Time Dance and Stance Gender Is as Gender Does? Behind the Scenes with Performativity A Different Kind of Closet Good to Think or Good to Eat? Nothing, Repeat, Nothing The Ghosts of Gender Past: Time Claims, Memory, And Modernity Forgetting: Mommy Nearest Remembering: Darwin's Bodies at the Bar Memory's Crucible, Time's Archer The Global Economy Next Time: When Genders are not Enough A Meditation on Change Making Capitalism Fast Gender in Real Time The Smirk of the Now
